Shocking and Interesting facts about Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman is an intelligent born actress on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel; she is the only child of a doctor father and an artist mother, who also acts as her agent. She is a smart straight student, she was born as diligent and does concern about getting a good education. She loved school so much that most of her classmates considered her a dork, she says. While going to college, Portman don't care if it ruins her career. She would be rather be smart than a movie star." Early in her life, Nat left her homeland for Washington, Smith Jewish Day School. After a few more moves, her family finally settled in New York and lived there until she graduated from Long Island High School 1999 with honours, which then allowed her to study at Harvard and graduated in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in psychology.

It was not until the year of 1999 that Nat gained her worldwide fame through her portrayal of Queen Amidala in the highly anticipated $431 million grossing "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace". Released early that year, the flick became the highest grossing film of the year and the second highest grossing film out of the Star Wars series. Following this, the young lady then was billed to star in the critically acclaimed drama "Anywhere but Here" (1999), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting

Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem and her date of birth is 9 June 1981 She is the only one child of Shelley, an American homemaker who works as Portman's agent, and Avner Hershlag, an Israeli citizen who is a fertility specialist and gynaecologist. Along with Johnny deep In April 2012, Portman starred in Paul McCartney's music video, My Valentine. In 2010, Natalie opponent work and fame with young people pick up her a nomination for VH1's Do Something Awards, which is faithful to admire child who do good.

She is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel. Her grandparents lost most of their family members in the Holocaust including her vigilant great grandparents who were killed at the Auschwitz study camp in Poland. Portman Natalie was detected at the age of 9 at a pizza parlour by a Revlon beauty spy. She turned down the offer of the modelling instead on focus at acting.

Natalie Portman's net worth is $45 million. In July 2013, Natalie announced she had selected an alteration adaptation of Israeli author Amos Oz's autobiographical novel A Tale of Love and Darkness as her directorial feature debut. Portman will also star in the film and was a co-writer on the script too.

Portman began to dating ballet dancer Benjamin Millepied in 2009. The couple met while she was filming Black Swan, for which he was the choreographer, In April 2012, Portman starred in Paul McCartney's music video, "My Valentine", alongside Johnny Depp. Portman appeared in Paul McCartney's music video "Dance Tonight" from his 2007 album Memory Almost Full, directed by Michel Gondry. After playing the role of Queen Amidala in the 'Star Wars' prequel, Natalie was concerned about the extra attention she might get from fans.

Natalie Portman received several injuries on the set of Black Swan. The most famous, as it was included in the film, was a rib injury. Natalie had injured her ankle and, because the production could not afford a surgeon on set, the boom mic operator offered to help. After few minutes of jabbing Natalie in the stomach, Natalie instructed everyone that her rib was now injured. She did, however, admit that her ankle was feeling a lot better.

Although she was once a vegetarian, and then she decided to become vegan in 2009.She is close friends with Jake Gyllenhaal, Mila Kunis and Bryce Dallas Howard, Natalie Portman has taken dance lessons since the age of 4, which helped hugely in preparing for her role in "Black Swan, Her favourite food is tofu and black beans.

While filming 'Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium,' Natalie met a five year old child who was diagnosed with Bloom syndrome, a genetic disorder that can cause disabilities and has a high risk of cancer. Natalie was so moved by the girl that she went ahead and organized a fashion auction that benefitted research for a cure. Portman carefully shot a precise nude scene for the 2004 "Closer," in the scene where her character was of Alice strips for Larry (Clive Owen). Ultimately, Portman and director Mike Nichols agreed not to use it, as the scene was effective enough without it.

Natalie Portman won a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for her role in the drama, 'Closer. 'Several months after shaving her head for her part in "V for Vendetta," she was traveling through Ireland and stopped for directions at a bed and breakfast. The owners blocked to allow her even onto their stoop. They did, however, give her oversight.

The year 2007 proved to be a very busy year for the actress as she filmed five movies in less than two years. These movies included 'Goya's Ghosts,' 'Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium,' 'My Blueberry Nights,' ' The Darjeeling Limited' and 'The Other Boleyn Girl.' She took a liking to acting after spending three summers at the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Camp. Natalie was a member of the environmental song and dance troupe called The World Patrol Kids - under her real name, Natalie Hershlag.

Natalie Portman's parents had strict guidelines for all the smoking scenes in 'The Professional.' The biggest burden about the film for Natalie's parents wasn't the violence, but the character trait of Matilda being a smoker. Her parents drew out a strict contract with director Luc Besson that there would only be five smoking scenes, that Natalie would never be seen inhaling or exhaling from a cigarette, and that her character would quit the bad habit by the end of the movie.

Two of her research papers were announced in scientific journals. Her 1998 high school paper, "A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar," co-authored with scientists Ian Hurley and Jonathan Woodward, was entered in the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called "Frontal lobe activation during object permanence: data from near-infrared spectroscopy" during her psychology studies at Harvard.

Natalie is a near genius, with an IQ score of 140. Natalie auditioned for the role of Juliet in 'William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet,' but the producers thought she was too young to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio so the role went to Claire Danes instead. She's multi-lingual she can speak Hebrew, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

Natalie Portman and Britney pike joined forces in 2003 and hosted a New Year’s party with 40 of their closest friends at Manhattan's Hudson Hotel. As a young and smart girl, she was an understudy for the lead character in the off-Broadway show, "Ruthless," alongside Britney Spears.

Portman has one 3-year-old son, Aleph, who’s now attending kindergarten in Paris. But Natalie open to having more. She doesn't like the Israeli prime minister, she makes no bones about the fact she supported Israel’s Labour Party, not recently re-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I’m very much against Netanyahu. I am very, very upset and disappointed that he was re-elected. I find his racist comments horrific. However, she don’t what she want to make sure is, she don’t want to use her platform the wrong way She feels like there’s some people who become hilly and then it’s out in the foreign press. You know, shit on Israel. I do not; I don’t want to do that.

Natalie Portman has no TV. Since Portman moved to Paris with her husband, dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, she has been TV-free. "They really don’t have a television," she says. "Everyone told her to get one. Her pleasure is watching cooking shows and everyone was like, 'Oh my God, just watch French Top Chef and you’re going to be fluent.' Maybe I'll learn how to cook." Portman isn’t completely TV-needy, however: She watches shows like Transparent and Broad City on the computer.

Natalie Portman is in early talks to be added to the cast of Universal's biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. She is a married mother from Long Island. Forbes magazine estimated that the Harvard grad was the eighth highest earning actress in Hollywood in 2013 with earnings of $14 million. Not too shabby considering it was a down year professionally for Portman, who seems primarily focused on her family life.

Portman, who married a French ballet dancer, announced that she and her family would relocate to France this year when her husband starts his new job as director of the Paris Opera Ballet. Ooh la la! Our loss is France’s gain.